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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... general report for the year 1867. Second Foreign Mission--Impressions on return--Want of life in English Schools, caused by Revised Code. Decline in supply and quality of Pupil Teachers--Changed s... More

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... general report for the year 1867. Second Foreign Mission--Impressions on return--Want of life in English Schools, caused by Revised Code. Decline in supply and quality of Pupil Teachers--Changed spirit of Teachers--Prospect of fresh calls upon Them--How to be met?--Effects of Code on Schools, Inspection, Elementary and Higher Instruction--More free play wanted--Payment by Results not sound--Compulsory Education--School Fees--School Books, need of control--Public and Private Schools, a contrast. Several years have elapsed since last I made a general report. During those years I have a second time visited officially the schools of the Continent, having been employed for this purpose by the Schools Inquiry Commission of 1865, as I was previously employed for it by the Commission on Popular Education in 1859. The object of the more recent visit was not, as in 1859, the primary school; it was the school for the middle and upper classes. Still it was natural that I should not pursue my inquiries respecting secondary and superior instruction abroad without in some degree renewing my acquaintance with primary instruction, its legislation, and its actual condition. It was natural, too, that in returning to the inspection of primary schools in England, I should have in mind both my former return to them after a similar visit to the Continent, and the experience which each of my visits to the Continent had afforded me. I cannot say that the impression made upon me by the English schools at this second return to them has been a hopeful one. I find in them, in general, if I compare them with their former selves, a deadness, a slackness, and a discouragement which are not the signs and accompaniments of progress. If I compare them with the schools of the Continent I find in t...

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